Digitally Sweet Challenges #49 Numbers

It's all about numbers this week at Digitally Sweet Challenges.And what better way to use numbers than a trip to the Indy 500!

This was done using Template Dreams Let's Go! And this week you can win a $5 gift certificate to template dreams!

And how do you use numbers in a layout?

Digitally Sweet Challenges-Layers

It's all about layers this week at Digitally Sweet Challenges and we are sponsored by Cedar Chest Designs.

A couple of weeks ago my life took an abrupt turn. My wallet and camera were stolen. So I've been dealing with identity theft issues, but more sadly my camera and the digital card with my pictures were gone. While the lost of my checkbook, credit and debit cards were a pain, the pictures are not replaceable. So please learn from my experience and back up your digital pictures at least once a month.

As a result, my participation as a DT member is kind of limited at the moment depending on the theme. I do have my son's camera, so hopefully I will have some more pictures soon. And this week's layout is actually a gift for a friend's son who went to space camp.

Tip: I put the rocket ship on a wobbler-so it looks like the rocket ship is really moving:)

The Rocket Ship Digital Stamp is from our Sponsor Cedar Chest Designs. Thank you for sponsoring Digital Sweets!


Supplies:

Cardstock and Paper: Bo Bunny Blast Off!, Fancy Pants to the Moon, Bazzil, Project Life Rain Edition and Honey Edition

Copics: B66,C1,C5, C7, E28, E33, R11, Y04,Y15,  YG45,YR65

Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug Swirls

Stickles: Yellow Ice Stickles, Lime Green,Orange Peel, Silver

Digital Stamp: Rocket Ship by Cedar Chest Designs

Challenges

Frosted Designs: Embossing The Stars are dry embossed and then I added Stickles on top of the embossing

Boys Rule Challenge July Sketch



Linky Parties:

All That Stickles: Anything Goes

Have a Wonderful Week! I can't wait to see your layers!

Digitally Sweet Challenge- Celebrations

"It's time to celebrate, celebrate, Dance with the music." OK so I have had this song in my head all week:)
We are celebrating this week at Digitally Sweet Challenges along with our sponsor Template Dreams. 

I took a bit of a different approach to the theme, "Celebration". Instead of focusing on the traditional sense of the word, I decided to use a "Winner's Circle".  And this year instead of doing a big vacation our family is doing day trips throughout the year. And amazingly we have a world renowned attraction here in Central Indiana...The Indy 500 and the Brickyard. 

We did a "Background Tour" of the Indianapolis Speedway which was a bit pricey but because we don't have the expense of hotels we decided to splurge. It was well worth it. We had a ride on a tour bus on the track, took our pictures on the finish line, and explored the race tower. And we finished at the winner's circle!

I used My Memories Suite 4 with Template Dreams "Go to the Races."

Just a reminder we have changed the rules of the challenge and it no longer has to be 100% digital, it just needs to include a digital image. If it is 100% digital you will get two entries into the give away.

Have a wonderful week! I am looking forward to seeing your celebrations:)

Digitally Sweet Challenges-Make it Masculine

Good morning! It is just beautiful outside:) It is so nice to have NICE weather instead of storms!

I am back with Digitally Sweet Challenges. I had to take a break while I dealt with some issues caused by my ex. and getting the new Hero Arts Release into the store. If you have not checked out the release yet, be sure you do. The new stamps are PERFECT for scrapbooking, stamping, and multi-media. Because this release has been wildly popular not everything is in the store, but we are putting things back in as soon as they are in stock. Be sure to check it out. And currently there is a 10% sale going on. Please use discount code MYSTORY10.

This week we are sponsored by Digi Darla. Check out Digitally Sweet Challenges for the scoop on what you may win! Be sure to check out her store. I had planned to use the Happy Hiker stamp

But the story of my life is that if something will go wrong it will. And it did. My scanner is having attitude. So while I have the digi colored and ready to go my scanner would not allow me to add it to the layout. So hopefully by next week  I will have resolved the scanner issue. I need to get my techie son home from Purdue to give it a look over.

Our theme this week is Make it Masculine.

My Memories Suite Forest Whispers

You ask why flowers on a masculine page? Well first of all I had planned to put the Happy Hiker in place of the vine. The vines were lost without the flowers. But the photos were of the boys and I used masculine colors for the papers. It works well. The boys felt it was masculine and they would know! LOL

And now a little about Brown County /Nashville, Indiana. This area in the Cumberland Mountain Range (yes Indiana has mountains)  is famous for it's Artist Colony. Filled with shops,including two scrapbook stores, it is a mecca for those looking for that handmade gift. In the fall the turning leaves are so beautiful you need to get reservations 2 years in advance!

We went in May during the week to avoid the crowds. While we were not able to go into the historical pioneer cabins due to the museum only being opened on the weekend, the weather was great and we had an enjoyable time shopping. In the evening we went back to our cabin at the Brown County State Park and enjoyed an Indoor Water Park.

This is a great vacation spot:) We had a wonderful time!

Have a wonderful week! I am looking forward to seeing your masculine works!

Digitally Sweet Challenges Animal Fun

It's amazing Spring is finally here! The birds are back, the grass is green and the daffodils are in bloom!

It's been one hard winter. And in honor of spring and all of the new baby animals, it's Animal Week at Digitally Sweet Challenges.  Please remember it needs to 100% digital.

Software: My Memories/Doggie Dayz

Our  horse err dog Percy just celebrated his first birthday.And of curse he had to have his own special cupcake:)  And since he is celiac James had to make a special doggie one for him.

This week we sponsored by Cedar Chest Designs. The cupcake on this page is one of their designs.

http://www.cedarchestdesigns.com/

One lucky winner will win a $10 gift certificate.

Looking forward to seeing your animal fun pages!

Digitally Sweet Challenge-Photo Inspiration

Ohhhh...Check out the photo inspiration this week for Digitally Sweet Challenges....doesn't it just make your mouth water?

Forget the challenge I just want to go play in the candy store! LOL

So here's my take on the photo inspiration. I used My Memories Suite 4 Roy G Biv

We ran across this telephone booth in Gatlinburg, TN. You should have seen the look on the boys' faces! LOL They were clueless as to what it was. They couldn't believe there was a cord on the telephone and the fact that it couldn't text! LOL My children are clueless!

Challenges:

Child's Play Challenges: Matchbox Cars (I used the colors)

Have a week filled with enjoying old fashioned things!

Digitally Sweet Challenges-Once Upon a Tome

Welcome back to another fantastic challenge at Digitally Sweet. This week the theme is "Once upon a Time," Choose a fairy tale or legend to ton inspire your layout.

I had fun with this one. Our cat Dustbunny thinks she is a princess. So a layout about her was a given. We are forever interpreting her "looks" with language so I did something I have never done before on a layout added a speech bubble!

This was done with My Memories Suite 4 and the kits Princess and the Frog and Butterfly Days

Challenges:
Aud Sentiment Challenge: For a Child, what child doesn't love fairy tales?
Digitally Sweet-Once Upon a Time

Wishing you a week filled with Fairy Tale Moments!

Digitally Sweet Challenge-# 28 Spring & Pastel Colors

First special get well wishes for DT member Denise. She had surgery this week for a broken arm. I miss her terribly and I can't wait for her to be well enough to come back to the team.She has been so supportive of my learning how to do digital scrapbooking, I wouldn't be where I am today in my skills if it wasn't for her.

This week at Digitally Sweet it's all about Spring and Pastel Colors.  In my neck of the woods Spring still hasn't shown up. It is still winter here, but at least the trees are starting to bud and our duck family has returned. And momma and daddy duck are very argumentative this year. They have really put on a show for our cats. Maybe they are arguing about the fact they came back too early and it is still snowing here? LOL

So anyhow here is the only green stuff in my life at the moment-hopefully soon we will have some of the real stuff instead of photos.

I used My Memories Suite 4 for this.


Wishing you a week filled with Spring:)

Digitally Sweet Challenge-Rainbow and a give away

"Somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue...." This week at Digitally Sweet Challenges we want you to either use a rainbow or use rainbow colors.  And this week we are sponsored by Template Dreams who just so happens has an awesome kit..Lucky Charms. I had a lot of fun playing with this one!

One lucky winner will win a $5 gift certificate from Template Dreams

My goal this week was to learn how to build dimension on a digital layout. It took a few false starts, but I think I pulled it off. What do you think?

And I about died and went to heaven today when I stepped into our local Archivers. They are remodeling to put in a digital workstation! Computers and printers are going in! And I will be able to send my pictures from home to them to printed! This is going to be so awesome for  my digital layouts!

I am so looking forward to a week of seeing your rainbows!

Digitally Sweet Challenge# 26-Lost in Time

Welcome Back! Has it been a week already? And what a week it has been! This year at this time we were outside in shorts! This year we are digging out from the biggest snowstorm of the year! And I had a chuckle. I told Scott to get out of bed and move his car or he was going to get plowed in. And do you think he did it? Nope! Instead he laid in bed.  And then I got to watch him spend almost two hours digging out his car while I scrapped. (My scrapbook room faces the street.) Oh how I love natural consequences!!! LOL

This week at Lasting Memories we are "Lost in Time!" We want to see a watch or a clock in your design.

I used My Memories Suite 4 Remember When by C. Prince. I fell in love with this kit, especially the background papers. They are great for masculine pages.

This week we are sponsored by Cedar Chest Designs.  I just love their digital papers and stamps. One lucky person will win a $5.00 gift certificate.

Challenges:
Anything Goes Challenge- Make it Manly (It's a page for James)
Deep Ocean Challenge- For A Boy
4 Crafty Chicks- You've Got Me in Stiches-use stiching


Have a wonderful week catching those precious moments in Time!

Digitally Sweet Challenges Let's Have a Birthday Party

I am late, I am late for a very important date! And what's worse I am the one who called for this Party! I am so sorry! Scott had a medical emergency and I just haven't had time to post to the blog.

But better late than never, right? So this week at Digitally Sweet the theme is "Let's Have a Birthday Party!" And in my house we celebrate the boys' birthdays together because they are a day apart!

I used My Memories Birthday Balloons Digital Kit. This was such a fun kit.  Scott is on the left and James is on the right.

This week we're being sponsored by Digi Darla Designs!

DigiDarla is the brain child of Kim Eskola and her daughter Emilea.

"Emilea and I both enjoy creating and when the idea of creating digital stamps came up, it sounded like the most wonderful way to earn ever! There was only one problem! We are both shy and dislike the center of attention! As a way of "hiding behind the scenes" and avoiding having one spokeswoman, DigiDarla was born! Working with Emilea on this project has been a wonderful blessing and has stretched both of us. Emilea is a busy teen with her passion for art and training our 2 horses, piano and violin lessons, and squeezing in high school classes somewhere in between! She is also the oldest daughter in a family of 11!"

One lucky winner this week will win 5 images from Digi Darla Designs!!

 

 

I can't wait to see your birthday celebrations!

 

 

Digitally Sweet Challenge-Anything Goes

Oh this is my favorite challenge this week at Digitally Sweet! It's Anything Goes!

Can you tell Mischief has "Catittude"? Just this morning as I was trying to get breakfast he smacked me a good one because I forgot to fill his bowl. LOL

I fell in love with this kit from My Memories called "Meow."  The embellishments are darling, lots of kittens getting into mischief.

Looking forward to seeing your creations!

Digitally Sweet Challenge 23-Love is in the Air

We have a new Design Team Member! Welcome Sarah! Please be sure to check out her beautiful work at Plain and Fancy.

Did you have a wonderful Valentine's Day? Here's your chance to express your love again! The Digitally Sweet Challenge this week is "Love is in the Air." And my Loves are my sons:)

Software: My Memories Suite 4 and Template Dreams Candy Hearts. I just love the fact that Candy Hearts was done in colors that could be used for males! I think this is my favorite Template Dreams kit so far!

We are sponsored by Template Dreams this week. The winner will receive a $5 GC for some GOODIES.

Challenges:
Moving Along with the Times: Love is in the Air
Celebrate the Occasion: Valentine Anything Goes
Sincerely Yours Creations: Valentine Love


Have a wonderful week. I have joined Inspired to Scrap for a Weekend Warrior Sketch Class-3 days of sketches, tips and more all from the comforts of home and PJ's!!!!  And it is only $5!!!!! Yahooo!!!!

Digitally Sweet Challenge-Use Hearts and Flowers

Welcome back! This week at Digitally Sweet Challenges we are celebrating with hearts and flowers. And we are sponsored by Cedar Chest Designs! One lucky winner will receive a $10 gift certificate.

I know, I know there are no flowers on my Valentine Card, but this is for one of my sons  and he would have a fit if I used flowers, LOL.

I first colored the Cedar Chest Designs Penguin with Heart Strings with Copics: 100, RV02, BG45, R17, BG49, Y17, C1, YR16, RV04

I then scanned in the image.  I used My Memories Suite to design the card. To get the penguin to look like he is set into the card I choose a scalloped circle shape and chose photo to place him.

The background and scallop papers are Cedar Chest Design' Valentine Love Set Papers. I just adore the heart paper!

I can't wait to see your hearts and flowers!

Digitally Sweet Challenges-Anything but a Card or Layout

What a week. We've have had our summer clothes on, froze in the teens, had a tornado watch and a 30 car pileup on I-70 due to a snow storm. Mother Nature must have had a week of getting up on the wrong side of the bed! LOL

This week at Digitally Sweet we want you to put on your thinking caps and do anything but a card or layout. I have to admit with it needing to be a 100% digital this was a challenge and outside of the box for me. But then I took a look at all of the VERY cool cupcakes at Limited Runs Digital Stamps and it hit me! Make a gift tag for Scott's upcoming birthday! The boy LOVES aquariums!

This was my first time using Microsoft Paintbrush. I couldn't figure out how to do the blending, so I am going to have to work on that. And I can't wait to put this stamp to paper and see what kind of embellishment I can make for a future birthday page. Oh my mind is a going!!!!!

Our sponsor this week is Limited Runs Digital Stamp.

Limited Runs has a LARGE calorie free sweet shoppe filled with over 120 different cupcakes, something for almost every occasion too. From sweets to fun and even some darker images so there a little something for everyone. Almost all digi's are $2.00 each too. There are also sets and Mega Digi's for Scrapbookers. Plus I've always got hidden deals always going on. Stop by every Friday and pick up a Freebie but be quick as they are around for a Limited Time.

Nikki was kind enough to offer an image to those of us who wanted to showcase for her, thank you!!!

 

And now sadly it is time to say Good Bye to our Design Team Sister Ann. She is stepping down and we will all miss her. But the exciting news is that we are having a Design Team Call. We're only running this for one week, so if you're interested in being on our DT, join our challenge and please be sure to add DT with your link (ex: ElizabethDT) so we know you'd like to join us. Your work must be 100% digital. 

 

Have a wonderful week and if you have warm temperatures please send them my way. 

 

 

Digitally Sweet Challenge 19- Sketch Christmas Layout

Welcome Back:) Where did the week go? Our Digitally Sweet Challenge was created by our DT sister Ali. Check out her AWESOME sketch!

A special thank you this week to our sponsor Template Dreams. I used Trish's Festive Times for my creation. I just adore this set!  I love the use of the nontraditional blues! The reindeer are too cute for words!  (They are in an upcoming Lasting Memories Challenge Layout.)

Have a Scrappy Week!

Digitally Sweet Challenge #18- Inspiration Photo

Good Morning!

What a week of accomplishments! My New Year's Goal is to get my crafting life more organized. And so far it is working.

So here's my new schedule with the hope of that by Thanksgiving I will have all of my gift crafting done:) I found out this past year that a2z Scrapbooking Supplies gets REALLY BUSY from October-December so I really need to work ahead, because my crafting time is limited then.

Organizational Plan

Sunday-Clean my scrapbook room. I do clean up after each project- but this is related to deep cleaning and organizing. I am hoping I will come across more stuff and get it used rather than gathering dust.

Monday: Layout Day/Lasting Memories Design Work

Tuesday: Digital-Learn a new technique/skill, Digitally Sweet Design work This is the day I am most excited about. I am hoping to be able to start doing tutorials later in the year to help beginners.

Wednesday: Making gifts

Thursday: Cards

Fridays: Class Day-OK so I am guilty of taking a ton of classes and never having the time to finish them. This is going to be my get caught up day!

Saturday-Layout/Blogging Day

Digitally Sweet Challenge:

Our challenge this week is to use our Inspirational Photo chosen by our Design Team Sister Ali

Here's my interpretation:

When I first saw Ali's inspirational photo I instantly thought of this unusual duck we saw at Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. It's hard to see in the photo but there is red around it's bill. We have never seen a duck like that!

And at first I had the chains perfectly balanced on the blue mat, but I didn't care for the look. I thought having it slightly off-balanced gave it more interest. And this is the first time I used a white background with digital scrapping. In the past I wasn't sure how to use the different background papers-now that I have discovered shapes I am looking forward to all of the possibilities!

I used My Memories Software and Cedar Chest Designs Bloom and Bird Pattern Paper. To get the matted background I used www.picmonkey.com

I decided to concentrate on learning how to use My Memories Software as my first goal. I was bouncing between PhotoShop, Craft Artist and My Memories and I wasn't feeling comfortable with anything. So this week I concentrated on using shapes and coloring them with paper and using paper from another company.
And since this week we are sponsored by Cedar Chest Designs it was a perfect fit!

And our wonderful sponsor this week is Cedar Chest Designs. One lucky participant in this week's challenge will win a $5.00 gift certificate. Have you seen the darling holiday reindeer?

Have a Scrappy Week!!!!

Digitally Sweet Challenge Steam Punk

   I am back! I apologize for being gone so long!  The store became very busy and I have had a family emergency.  So a belated Happy Holidays to everyone.

We are going Steam Punk this week at Digitally Sweet Challenges.

This was created with My Memories Software. And check out the team's new watermarks ( ice cream cone) made by our Denise! Isn't it wonderful? Denise is so talented, I just drool over her layouts and every week. And she is a very supportive friend too. I am so blessed to have her in my life!

Be sure to check out a2z Scrapbooking. There are a ton of new Hero Arts products and we are adding more every day. The new inks are in. My personal favorites are navy, cornflower and passion flower. Use code HEROARTS15 to get 15% off your total order. And if you spend $50 or more you will get a free gift! No code needed.

I can't wait to see your steampunk creations:)

Digitally Sweet Challenge 12 Photo Inspiration

 Well are you stuffed from eating all that goodness yesterday? We had our Thanksgiving last Saturday because James spent his Thanksgiving with his Dad.



The photo inspiration for this week:

Mr. Gobbler makes me laugh!!!!!


And Thanksgiving at our house:)

I can't wait to see your turkey inspirations!

Have fun shopping!